Well being tech startup companions on hospital-at-home care

Following a number of main healthcare organizations increasing into advanced home-based care, Philadelphia-based Sena Well being will assist ship the Salem Acute Care at Dwelling for sufferers of Salem, New Jersey-based Salem Medical Heart.

The hospital-at-home startup has the capability to offer as much as 23 hospital-level companies at house for medical circumstances that might usually require hospital stays in addition to care coordinators which are accessible 24 hours per day, 12 months per yr.

Based on the announcement, this system combines knowledgeable care and superior expertise to ship home-based affected person care.

The primary affected person cared for by this system was seen in July.

“We cared for a affected person with congestive coronary heart failure within the consolation of her house, the place in any other case she would have been admitted to the hospital,” stated Dr. Wamiq Sultan, CMO of Salem Medical Heart.

To enroll, sufferers should have been seen in an emergency division and evaluated. In the event that they meet sure standards to be safely cared for at house, they’ll obtain two in-person nursing visits per day. They will join with a devoted medical workforce, simply as they’d in a hospital.

Dr. John Frownfelter, chief medical officer at Jvion, instructed Healthcare IT Information in December, “If we put sufferers first, then the setting turns into irrelevant.”   

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT Information.
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